Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme.

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Citation Formats
N. Polat, “Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme.,” INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, pp. 613–614, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55880.